Liquid-fuel vaporizer



June w, 1923. 1,4595% S. G. HOUSE LIQUID FUEL VAPORIZER Filed Aug. 7, 1922 naw/MM dzwzmai 6'.

Patented June l 1923.

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-OF MIAMI, FLORIDA.

LIQUID-FUEL VAPORIZ ER.

Application filed August 7,

To aZZ'wiw m it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL G. HOUSE, a

citizen of the United States, and a resident of Miami, in the county of Dade and State of Florida, have invented anew and useful Liquid-Fuel Vaporizer, and of which thefollowing is a specification. Y My invention relates to automatic liquid .fuel or gas vaporizer for internal combustion engines and its principal object is to provide an automatic device for breaking up or atomizing the liquid or gaseous fuel, thus creating a proper combustion element before it enters the engine cylinders.

A further object of the invention is to provide an automatic vaporizer creating a vortex for use on internal combustion engines, which will automatically conduct unvapor ized liquid fuel to a point where it will intermingle with air and again carried through the vaporizer to insure thorough vaporization or atomizing of the mixture.

My invention also contemplates a device of this character having an additional air advantages in mind inlet automatically controlled by a valve operatively connected with the carburetor control valve. I 4

With the preceding and other objects and the invention consists in the novel combination of elements, construction and arrangement of parts and operations to be hereinafter .more fully described, claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein:

F gure 1 is a side elevation of the device arranged between the intake manifold and, the carburetor of an internal combustion en e' ig.2 is a fragmentary plan view of the same;

1. F ig. 3 is-a vertical sectional view taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 2; and

Fig. 4 is a vertical'sectional view taken on line 4. 4 of Fig. 2.

. Referring in detail to the drawingsjvhere in similar characters of reference designate. similar parts throughout the several views, the numeral 5 designates a conventional carburetor and 6 the'intake manifold of an in ternal combustion engine. These elements do not enter in the invention per'se, but are shown to illustrate the application of the device. r

My invention consists of an elongated plate or casting 8 fashionedfrom any heat x 1922. Serial No. 580,354.

buretor 5 and is provided with a central opening 9. This opening 9 is formed with a groove or channel 10 upon one of its side walls, which is respect to the opening 9 and communicates with a bore or air inlet 11 extending trans-' versely through this plate or casting and prpens upon one side thereof, as shown in A. circular valve 12 is provided for controlling this inlet 11 and is pivoted to the plate or casting 8 by a set screw'13, the valve being provided with an elongated opening 14 for registration with the bore or air in-- let l1. An the valve '12 and is provided with a longitudinal slot 16. Plates or castings 17 and 17', the latter nearest the manifold, are disposed upon the opposite faces of the plate or casting 8 and secured thereto by screws or other fastenings 18.v Shims or washers 19 are interposed between the opposed faces or plates or casting 8 and the plates or castings 17 and 17'; the opening in 17 being somewhat smaller than the opening in 17 This affordsv a rim for the entire center chamber, causing the vortex to complete continuous circuit for the entire center chamber before emitting the the motor. I p

An atomizing element or reticulated sheet 20 of extremely fine mesh is' stretched across the plate 17* and extends entirely across the opening 9 in the plate or casting 8, the edges of this sheet 20 being held .in a circum-' ferential groove 21 in the inner face of the plate 17". Bolt receiving openings 22 are provided in the plates or castings 8, 1.7 and 17, which receive'bolt's 23' to retain the device between the flanges 7.

arm 15 extends rearwardly from Y disposed eccentrically with' thoroughly mixed contents into The operating arm of the carburetor is designated at 24 and cairies a pin'25, which is operatively engaged in the slot 16 of the arm 15, whereby upon actuation of this arm the valve will be automatically moved to a position where the port 14 will register with the bore 11 to permit-the ingress of air into the device, entering insuch manner as to create a circular whirl gathering the gas ele ment with the air'into a vortex motion, having its outlet at all times from the center of the vortex through the gauze into the intake manifold. This emphasized vortex aside from thoroughly'mixing the air and gas element, serves to wear the gas globules completely out in the course of their contact with the gauze when repeatedly whirled against same by the herein described vortex motion.

From the disclosure it willbe obvious that the gas and air passing through the element will be broken up or atomized before it enters the intake manifold of the engine. it wish to emphasize the fact that some of the liquid fuel will yithoutthis device, retain its liquid state and in order to'atomize the, same, the groove or channel 1.0 is 'provlded to catch this liquefied fuel and prevent its entrance .into the intake/manifolduntil properly atomized. f

The incoming air through the bore 11 will give the liquid fuel retained in the groove or channel a swirl or twirling motion and cause/it to create a vortex and strike the atomizing element with suficient velocity to thoroughly vaporize it.

It is to be understood that the form of my invention, herein shown and described, is to be taken as a preferred example of the same, and that various changes inthe shape, size and arrangement of parts may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention or the scopeof the subjoined claim.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new and desireto secure and protect by Letters States, is

a central bore therein, covering saidbore, ber positioned adjacent tosaid bore, chamber and bore mmunicating with each Patent "of the United A liquid fuel vaporizer comprising a body, a reticulated element a liquid receiving chamother, an air passage disposed tangentially adapted to register with said air passage;

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